Job apply with Facebook access

In the US, if a person applies for a job, there is a possibility that the company may ask him for his Facebook access. According to news article, it stated that the company involves wants to know more about the person. Indeed, depending on how much a user of Facebook uses, the degree of showing oneself will be different. But it would be very uncomfortable to force someone to show you his access, or even force to friend the manager or someone whom you have no wish to friend. Sure you can reject and you won't get your job too. What has the world come to be? What about those that never uses Facebook? You might say it is unbelievable and would assume it would be an excuse to fake out. Right now it might be hard to control in the US but for other smaller countries, I doubt this problem would happen. The gov would surely comes down hard on company demanding the Facebook access. What next? Key to your apartment?

Bank problems

So you have heard of the unauthorised withdrawal of money from ATMs oversea. Now you get instead, "unauthorised" deposit into a bank account! That guy is now a billionare, except that he can't use any of those money because for some reason, the bank doesn't allow withdrawal. It doesn't matter anyway since the guy is an honest guy and he reported the matter to the bank but the bank although acknowledge such an error, they for some reason did not remove the additional digits from the account.

http://www.conservativerefocus.com/blog5.php/2012/01/19/indian-school-teacher-becomes-overnight-multi-billionaire-due-to-banking-error-nearly-10-billion-deposited

Majies are the family jewels

Just heard the majie story on channel 8. I just wonder how those employers could just forsaken them after their years of service? Some of the adults whom the majie took care of during young would still be showing concern to them. While they may be of no blood relation at all, but after all these years of taking care of the family I am sure you don't need to be related to be part of the family. I respect those adults who still show their concern to the majies. These people can sometimes be more dear then the parents themselves. Their sad stories deserves our respect. If you are still lucky to have one in your household you should treat them as family members and not like a servant.

China should wake up the people, morally

You should have read the news about that china girl that got knocked down by a van and got ran over twice when passer-bys refusing to help. China is growing in the world but the chinese people just doesn't seems to. You have oppression in some cities, poison foods, kidnappings, slavery, lastly, moral decay. While Chinese have always been regards as victims ever since the end of the world war. Even in television and movies, yet the latest news that shook the world just tipped the iceberg more. The passer-bys are all morally wrong by ignoring a little girl lying on the road. If it is an adult, it happens everywhere else but who would left a little girl there? Rather than admiting their wrongs those passer-bys that got caught would even claim they didn't see anything. It is a shame to all chinese around the world, but it also brought out the heroes, such as the granny who saved the little girl as well as others that gave the passer-bys a piece of their minds, one even reported going there and gave them a slap! China time to buck. You maybe a monster now in the world economy but within the country moral decay is happening bad. Time to educate the arrogants and jail the bad apples.

Space junk falling back to Earth

NASA had confirmed that a satellite will re-enter the atmosphere on Friday and will land somewhere on Earth. The location is unknown. That can be bad news. Imagine that chunk of metal fell from the sky and does some damages. What would the difference would be as compare a meteorite that fell? This metal chuck belongs to NASA and if it toppled your house or sunk your basement NASA would probably have to take responsibility over it since it is their property. So watch out. If it is Friday in the US, it would probably be Saturday on the other side of the globe.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/nasa-satellite-will-fall-from-sky-but-this-space-junk-is-unlikely-to-hit-anyone/2011/09/20/gIQAueOtiK_story.html

Do you trash stuff without checking?

An Australian man while moving out trash had threw out his wife's jwellery and gold bars. Those stuff are put in trash looking bags to foil any thieves if any. Why didn't the wife put those treasures in a bank? According to report the man tried to ask if it is possible to dig through the trash piles to locate them but it is not possible. I guess there will still be people not comfortable with their valuables inside the bank. Then again, why didn't the man inspect their bags before dumping them?

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/50-000-jewels-thrown-rubbish-032320832.html

Space travel will need miracles.

Men have always been looking into the skies. While NASA had grounded the shuttles forever and left the fates of going into orbit to untested companies, funds been cut from the government for political reasons, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now trying to get some people to start planing for space travel to the nearest star. For current technologies, it is impossible, even to reach the next nearest planet, or even the moon. The last time someone went to the moon they are unable to stay long unless they have improved equipments for long stay. Imagine cycling from the borders of Canada to the border of Mexico, that would take months. Including the rider would have to take breaks and rest. Current spaceships all kind of using rocket boosters. It takes fuels and before halfway to it's destination it would need refuel. Also the crew will need to survive the conditions in long term space flight. Space travel will need miracles.

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/darpas-100-year-starship-study-sponsors-research-for-interstellar-travel-20110818/

SETI continues to find aliens

Politics and science should not mix. All these topics should not even be mixing with other topics such as music and entertainment and sports. Somehow there will always be some politicians doing it, mixing them. The latest is the budget cut from research project SETI. SETI is the project for searching for alien life in the sky. Some people just think that they are not important enough. The US should look back at how did they ended up this way. The simple answer is that they over spent. Over spending on wars at other people's countries. They may be then, the richest country but to dump their money into war, plus the economy broke down during 2009 just shove them into their current status. Spend only if you have the amount. That is simple logic. Right now, donors who believes in the continuing search for aliens stepped in. Hopefully it will bear some fruits. A sign to show that something is out there and people can throw out the area 51 stories. The real story will be coming from the sky instead.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gwCLMLZLr-r_MmthuOoXdDPEvEaQ?docId=CNG.3404e18b09e683dd9aaf2d6e60f080df.01

Time for exercise!

Playing computer games continously will result to death. This report indicate that a 20 years old Briton benn sitting down playing games all the time. He was said to have died due to congestion in the blood vessel. Meaning that you cannot stay still for too long. When you moves, your blood within your body flows. For some reason not exercise will cause your blood to slow down. Extreme cases such as this resultin death. So if you are a sitter time to go for a long walk out of the house!

http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/866-xbox-addict-dies-from-blood-clot/

Internet can mind wipe? What about books?

Using Googles could wipe your memory. Actually it doesn't just mean googles but overall anything internet. Perhaps it would include those encyclopedias as well. The point here is that the news article suggest that, since we know that the informations are available online, we would not bother to remember the informations in our brain. So wouldn't it be the same as we know the informations be in the books? Maybe there are some truth in it. It is all up to ourselves to move our body parts, including the brain.

http://www.todayonline.com/Science/EDC110715-0000136/Using-Google-could-wipe-your-memory

Sunflower to clean radioactive soil??

Japanese are now trying to get people to grow Sunflowers on the radioactive soils at the Earthquake area. How did they get the idea that Sunflower will help to decontaminate the soil? I tried to look for the info on Wikipedia but nothing was mention about this. Is this just another myth to give people false hope or someone found something that even internet doesn't know? Seriously wouldn't the plants, including Sunflowers dies on a radioactive land? Right now they should concentrate on decommission that nuclear station. Looks like those Japs are still trying to save their money by trying to save the nuclear station.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/sunflowers-clean-radioactive-soil-japan-114840850.html

Creative barcodes

Barcodes are those dull looking lump of lines with a row of numbers. It is actually for the computer database that contains all the informations on that item. If it is a book, the library will use it to retrieve records of the book. If it is other items, places like a supermarket will retrieve the price info for the item. Now some people intend to change how the squarish looking barcode to something creative. As shown, most of the barcodes still include the numbers at the bottom, in cases like the scanner unable to read the barcode, the human operator will input the numbers into the computer which will translate into the barcode. From the website, the first design is a mess. While it looks interesting, the numbers are jumble. If creativity should happen, the first design should be out. Feel free to design but do not make it complicated to the human eye. You never know when a scanner decide to play tantrum and stop reading a barcode that you have to manually input but the barcode is messy looking.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112992/barcodes-as-art-wsj

Do not leave your kids alone

Leaving their children alone at home is a big NO. It isn't just a local problem. It is global, especially in those high rise buildings. When the child was left alone, usually during their nap time, they woke up alone. They would then want to look for their mummy or the adult person in the house. Unable to find anyone in the house they then goes to the window, and usually it wasn't locked. That is when accident happens. It is lucky for this kid, for this family. The kid got stuck at the aircon mounted at the wall. Also some brave residents among the community group together to save the kid. This shows that there are still good people in China, after all those negative news happening there.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/dramatic-rescue-of-boy-trapped-behind-air-conditioning-unit-.html

Artifical food made from excrement

The world will be facing a food shortage in the future. People are now finding ways to create more food. However, would you dare to eat it? Japanese scientist have claim to create artifical meat from human excrement...! They say that the meat is of high nutritional value and reduce greenhouse gas emmision. Ultimately, would people accept such food? Perhaps, this is a first step towards artifical food. This could also be a kind of food stuff for space travel. Right now, it seems too early for people to accept it. Finally, there is no wrong when you call someone eat sh*t!

http://news.omy.sg/News/World%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201106181450-253426.html

party invitations gone wrong

Facebook have done it again, or at least careless user of facebook. Invitations to personal party which was open to public view caused the owner of the party to flee her own home. This is not the first time I read about such happening. Is facebook really the way to invite people to party? This shows that the old fashion way or who you want to invite, you send a card or a note. I am sure this will not be the last of it.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/facebook-blunder-leads-crowd-teens-birthday-150742959.html

Coins are here to stay

It seems that people are getting innovative at doing payment. We are getting into the stage of cashless payment but the dollar notes and coins are still sticking around. Sometimes people will start doing mischief with these. Some guy tries to pay up something which he isn't happy with does the payment with coins, and he ended up with the cops. There is also story of another guy who is not happy over something and pass over his sums in coins, but he isn't breaking any law, because he was depositing his money with the bank. So coins are there to assist us with the smaller sums but when some "wise" dude tries to be a maths wiz he would just be trying his luck with the law.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20110606/od_yblog_upshot/penny-offense-man-fined-for-paying-fee-in-pennies

Trance is it only entertainment?

There is this news of a hypnotist while trying to "wake up" his tranced participants fell and knocked out. So if the hypnotist fail to wake up or if he injured himself then does that mean the tranced people will be tranced forever? Can't a tranced person be woken out by a shake on the shoulder or any other means like dealing with a sleeping person? While it would be curious on what the feel of being tranced to be. Could it be inside a different world or into the past? Or worst, those who participated were actually part of some acts to entertain the audiences. Just like some magics it is still hard for some people to accept hypnotic as real.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/hypnotists-mishap-leaves-people-trance-171515359.html

New doomsday from the same guy that gave fake dates....

Doomsday is not over. The dude who cried doomsday since 1994 and then May 21 this year, which did not happened is now announcing a new date. The new date is 5 months later. So how many more people will follow him? It would probably be another fake date. How many people will jump in with him? He did not offer explanations on how he get that date. This is one leopard that will try again and again as long as the place is still in one piece...

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/radio-host-says-worlds-end-actually-coming-oct-035849791.html

Another fake doomsday prediction

It is strange that some people tries to say that doomsday is today, 21st may 2001. Well it seems nothing happened. Not even some minor minor stuff. Such proclaimations from "fanatics" happened before. These groups even did a mass sucides, sad to say for them the world is still here. Perhaps it there are predictions, it should be logical since men evolved into educated minds that goes for reasons and truths, at least as truthful as best. There is still the Dec 2011 based on the Mayan calender as well as some other calculations from other religions. This one created the most attention and it maybe one of those false alarms as usual. Everyone knows all good thinsg will end someday. We will never know as from the bible there is this text: "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." Scientists however conclude that Earth will ultimately be destroyed when the Sun engulfed the solar system. That, it will be beyond generations to be able to witness.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/149521/20110521/may-21st-doomsday-bah-humbug-here-s-why-the-world-won-t-end-may-21st-may-21-doomsday-new-zealand-ear.htm

Ants attacks if you snack in bed!

Amazingly, this news article inform that if you snack in bed, you could endanger yourself. At least in this case, ants made themselves home in the ear of this girl who always snack in bed. Probably lazy or bad luck. One should always, after snack, clear off the crumbs. I don't think the ants would march over after a snack. So cleaniness is what matters.

http://news.omy.sg/News/World%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201105201510-246624.html